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New Startup JPEGmini Reduces Photos’ Size, Not Their Quality

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Re: New Startup JPEGmini Reduces Photos’ Size, Not Their Quality

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When this was discussed last week people were deeply unimpressed.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940505

Tests done by HNers suggested that the service introduced significant artifacts. One comment was:

    Custom quantization tables and chroma
    subsampling, with a bit of hype.
( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940759 )

Others thought it did a really good job, but you have to scroll down that discussion to the bottom to find people who agree with the site's claims.

I'm sceptical.

Re: New Startup JPEGmini Reduces Photos’ Size, Not Their Quality

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When this was discussed last week people were deeply unimpressed. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940505 Tests done by HNers suggested that the service introduced significant artifacts. One comment was: Custom quantization tables and chroma subsampling, with a bit of hype. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940759 ) Others thought it did a really good job, but you have to scroll down that discussion to the b…

I can only second that. I also tried some sprites we use. The service reduced the size by about 15%, but introduced clearly visible artefacts, especially around text. Not very convincing.